"Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep."

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Source : Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley, Sir Graham Balfour (1903). “The amateur emigrant. Across the plains. The silverado squatters”

William Ernest Henley

#Stars Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes

“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.”
“Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.”

Source : Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.72, Routledge
“I was not an activist.”
“Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run--each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step away--each a small separation, a small distancing.”
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
“My buddy Alex Blumberg learned - he was very public about his learning process, and I know for a fact because we sat next to each other for many years, that he knew nothing about venture capital or seed rounds or "A" rounds or whatever you call them, and he had to really learn, like, pitch by pitch. He just screwed pitches up.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.”
“They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.”

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